Microsoft has announced a new payment option for its Power Apps and related Power Platform services, such as PowerToys.
The move means that in addition to its current user-based model, in which companies rent services for each individual user, Microsoft offers a pay-as-you-go plan, in which customers only pay for the duration of actual use. of the application. March.
As Power Apps is heavily tied to Azure cloud services, the company says customers can use their Azure subscription to cover their use of Power Apps and Dataverse capacity.
"Historically, low-code platforms have required customers to determine their licensing needs in advance, which often involves time-consuming acquisition processes negotiated between developers, manufacturers, and IT professionals," the company said in a statement. . "While the scale and predictability of user-based licensing has many benefits, many current scenarios require the agility of a usage-based model."
Ideal for newly created applications
Microsoft believes that the pay-as-you-go option will be a great solution for companies that don't know how many people will end up using a newly created app.
"When building a new app, it's often hard to predict how many users will want to use it, making it difficult to predict license requirements up front. Now you can start with pay-as-you-go to measure usage patterns and then determine if it makes sense to buy a Power Apps prepaid subscription plan.
By enabling teams to pay for Power Apps through Azure subscriptions and view and allocate costs through Azure Cost Management and Azure Tags, companies will be able to allocate software license costs to the departments and teams that use the licenses.
Companies interested in using the new services simply need to link the environment that contains their applications to an Azure subscription. After that, any use of Power Apps and Dataverse in this environment will be billed to the subscription.
Microsoft also introduced three new sets of Azure meters to better track usage and costs: Power Apps by Pay-As-You-Go Meter, Dataverse Pay-As-You-Go Meters; and Power Platform requests a counter. You can read more about counters at this link.
Via: The Registry